platinum

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Very expensive, or of very high quality

   We can offer the platinum service for fifty dollars extra.

2. 2
   verb

   To attain all of the achievements in a game (originally on certain PlayStation consoles, now colloquially used regardless of platform).

   I platinumed in Clash of Clans yesterday.

3. 3
   noun

   a heavy precious metallic element

4. 4
   noun

   The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us Proto-Hellenic *plətús Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús)bor. Vulgar Latin *plattusder. Spanish plata Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus Spanish -ina Spanish platina English -um English platinum From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being min...

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